It’s happened to me, and it could happen to you: you’re at a convention and you’re accosted by some extremely friendly individuals in costume. Suddenly people are menacing you with foam-covered plumbing supplies, talking about vampire princes or what happens if you look Cthulhu in the eyes. (Hopefully not at the same time!) Don’t fear, dear conventioneer. These people are not rogue plumbers, blood-gurgling parasites or cultists: they’re Live-Action Role Players, or LARPers.

Gen Con Indy is one of two big conventions happening this weekend in the United States (the other is Creation’s Official Star Trek Convention in Vegas). If you’re a gamer, Gen Con Indy is definitely one of the “must attend” conventions each year. Not surprisingly, it attracts at least 90,000 consumer and professional attendees. And did we mention Felicia Day and Wil Wheaton will be there?

Not everyone can make it out to Origins this weekend (one of the biggest gaming conventions in the United States). If you’d still like to get your game on at a convention this weekend, check out Three Rivers Con, a one day gaming con in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is being held June 26, 2010 at Fountainhead College.

Dragonflight is a convention that started back in 1980 and today it is one of the longest running gaming conventions in the USA’s Pacific Northwest. This convention brings together more than 500 players and game masters to play in or run around 300 events spread over three days. Dragonflight XXXI is happening August 13 – 15, 2010 at the Bellevue Hilton Hotel in Bellevue, Washington.
Attendees can expect board games, role-playing, RPGA, miniatures, LARP (Live Action Role-playing), networked computer games, card games, seminars, an auction, and tons of vendors.
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Last weekend, everything I thought that I knew about pen and paper role-playing games got thrown out of a tenth story window and replaced with something fresh, new, and terribly overdue. This happened at the 7th Dimension Games store in Roslyn, Pennsylvania (USA). Machine Age Productions game developer David A. Hill Jr. came in Saturday afternoon and ran a demo of his soon-to-be released sci-fi horror genre RPG called Maschine Zeit. Attendance at the event was fairly robust for such a small venue, which enabled us to split into two …